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Primordial Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

404

Decks Running

201

In Decks

1150

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Primordial Hydra

Creature — Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

0 / 0

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

Final zone distribution

107 instances

4.7%

Library

25.2%

Battlefield

29.9%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 95 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 26 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 12 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 11 decks
5 Primo, the Unbounded 6 decks
6 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 4 decks
7 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 3 decks
8 Rosheen, Roaring Prophet 3 decks
9 The Goose Mother 3 decks
10 Thranduil the Strategist 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

404 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

404

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=64) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=31) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

12%

20%

43%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.